7-Day Persian Highlights Tour from Tehran with Persepolis and Isfahan

• After arriving in Tehran, connect with your tour representative and enjoy an early check-in at your Tehran hotel for some rest.

• Visit Tehran's Golestan Palace and the Iran National Museum, home to astonishing historical objects dating from the 5th millennium B.C. to the 7th century A.D.

• After lunch, stop for photos at Azadi Tower (Tower of Freedom) with your Iranian tour guide.

• Travel to Mehrabad Domestic Airport for your flight to Shiraz.

• Upon arrival in Shiraz, transfer to your hotel for your stay and rest. If time permits, you can enjoy a walk around Qur'an Gate.

• Today will be a full-day tour of Shiraz. See the Pink Mosque, Eram Garden, Karim Khan Citadel, an 18th-century residential-military palace, Vakil Bazaar, and Saraye Moshir, where the daily life of the people of Shiraz can be seen.

• After lunch, visit the Tomb of Hafiz, one of Iran's most outstanding world-famous poets.

Overnight stay in Shiraz.

• After breakfast, drive to Yazd, the city in the heart of the desert.

• On the way to Yazd, visit two World Heritage Sites: Persepolis, the fabulous art of ancient Persia, and Pasargadae, the first capital of the Persian Empire and the tomb of Cyrus the Great. You will also see Naqsh-e Rostam (Necropolis), the rock tomb of four Achaemenian kings and Sassanid reliefs.

• Arrive in Yazd and transfer to your hotel.

• Go for a short walk around Amir Chakhmaq Square and the old streets of Yazd.

• Enjoy a full-day excursion in Yazd, including a visit to the Fire Temple of Zoroastrians and the Tower of Silence.

• Walk around the old area of the city and visit Yazd Jameh Mosque and the Fahadan district to feel Iran's desert architecture and culture.

• Visit Zoor Khaneh, a sports place with a thousand years of history.

Overnight stay in Yazd.

• Explore Dowlat Abad Garden and its wind tower, the highest wind tower in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• Drive to Isfahan.

• On the way to Isfahan, visit the city of Meybod to see a caravansary inn, the Pigeon Tower, and a mud-brick ice house.

• Head to the city of Nain in Isfahan Province to see the old Jame Mosque.

• Arrive in Isfahan and enjoy an evening walk around the Si-o-se-pol Bridge over the Zayandeh Rood River.

Overnight stay in Isfahan.

• Enjoy full-day sightseeing in Isfahan, including visits to the Khaju and Shahrestan bridges, Chehel Sotun, the reception palace of the Safavid Dynasty, Naqsh-e Jahan (Imam) Square, the Ali Qapu Palace of the Safavid kings, Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, Abbasi Jame Mosque, and the bazaar area.

Overnight stay in Isfahan.

• Drive to Tehran.

• Take a halt in Kashan to visit traditional houses.

• Afterward, proceed to the airport for your return flight.

Tour ends.